From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA05835; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:01:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00701 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:01:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp2.cswv.com (smtp2.cswv.com [4.17.129.20]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g35F16T13323 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:01:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp2.cswv.com ([10.2.3.6]) by smtp2.cswv.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:01:00 -0500 Received: FROM exchange1.cswv.com BY smtp2.cswv.com ; Fri Apr 05 10:00:59 2002 -0500 Received: by exchange1.cswv.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:01:01 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Krishnaswami, Neel" To: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cryptokit: cryptographic library for OCaml Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:01:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Sven [mailto:luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:02:14PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > My amateur, unfocused interest for applications of > > cryptography led me to implement the Cryptokit library of > > cryptographic primitives for OCaml, providing: > > Mmm, what are the legal restriction related to this ? Is it legal to > distribute it in france (legislation may have changed since > last i checked about such things a few years ago) ? Is it legal to > distribute it from an US based server (i think yes, but you would > need to declare the software to the NSA or something such). I don't know about the details of French law, but in the USA there is no need for any review of open-source cryptography software, whether in source or binary format. See: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/EncryptionRuleOct2K.html -- Neel Krishnaswami neelk@cswcasa.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners